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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
October 11, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, animals, Bible, cars, death, disease, droughts, evil, flat tire, floods, gravity, human evil, humanity, hurricane, injury, intelligent design, microbes, natural causes, natural disasters, natural evil, naturalism, pain, poverty, Scripture, Second Law of Thermodynamics, sickness, suffering, theism, theodicy, tinkering, tornadoes, universe, water, weather}

Thoughts of Evil in a Designed World

_{Eric Hedin
October 11, 2023

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Nowhere in the animal world do we see evil that comes anywhere close to comparing with the unfortunate depths of evil displayed by humanity. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, assisted suicide, barbiturates, butterfly, CDC, death certificate, Death with Dignity, disease, doctors, medical aid in dying, overdose, statistics, suicide, United States}

CDC Undercounts Suicide Epidemic by Not Including Assisted Deaths

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 15, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine

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You can call a dung beetle a butterfly, but it remains a dung beetle. The term suicide defines what is done, not why. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 11, 2023

Categories
Genetics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aeon, behavior, children, choices, disease, eugenics, gene expression, genes, genome, homosexuality, identical twins, psychologists, selfhood, twins, UC Berkeley}

Genes Rule? The Evidence of Identical Twins

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 11, 2023

Genetics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Researcher on identical twins hoped to prove that Genes Rule! But there were ethics slippages along the way. Read More ›

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Date
March 31, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, Amazon, cells, Daily Mail, disease, Elon Musk, futurists, Google, human beings, immortality, longevity, Ray Kurzweil, robots, transhumanists}

Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)

_{Science & Culture
March 31, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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Would living forever in a utopian technological society really be as great as the transhumanists insist? Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, disease, DNA, eLife, evolution, function, human genome, humans, intelligent design, junk DNA, loss-of-function mutations, pathology, repetitive elements, Research, Short Tandem Repeats}

More Jobs for “Junk” DNA (Cont.)

_{Paul Nelson
March 22, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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If “junk” DNA goes toxic, does that suggest it had an original normal function? See the conclusion of this new paper. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 19, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animal rights, animals, bees, bugs, butterfly, disease, fly, humans, insects, Jonathan Birch, Lars Chittka, larvae, rivers, Wired}

Pushing Insect Welfare

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 19, 2023

Bioethics, Life Sciences

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Of course, we know that insects are not inanimate. A fly senses when you try to swat it. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
January 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science
Technology
Tagged
, antibiotics, death, disabilities, disease, Futurism, immortality, injury, longevity, medicine, pagans, transcendence, transhumanists}

Dear Transhumanists: Do You Really Want to Live Forever?

_{Peter Biles
January 27, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Science, Technology

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A life of meaning is what we truly need, and perhaps what we most deeply desire. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
December 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, "poor design", abuse, aesthetics, aging, breathing, choking, communication, constraints, disease, esophagus, evolution, evolutionists, intelligent design, lungs, Nathan Lents, Parkinson’s disease, pharynx, respiratory system, singing, speech, stroke, syllogism, tongue, trade-offs}

The Supposed Bad Design of the Human Pharynx

_{Howard Glicksman and Steve Laufmann
December 14, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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The pharynx affords us the abilities to breathe and swallow, but it does much more. It affords the ability for speech, language, and singing. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 12, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, advance directive, Belgium, Canada, culture, dementia, disability, disease, doctors, euthanasia, illness, killing, Netherlands, nurse practitioner, patients}

Canadian Bill to Allow Euthanasia of Dementia Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 12, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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If the patient resists, the killing is not supposed to take place. Right. As though the person would know what was happening. Read More ›

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Date
February 17, 2022

Categories
Biochemistry
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Cinderella, disease, Drosophila, ENCODE, evolution, Evolution News, intelligent design, junk DNA, Michael Denton, natural selection, parasites, Paul Nelson, retroviruses, The Scientist, transposable elements, transposons}

Cinderella Story? Transposons Gain New Respect

_{Science & Culture
February 17, 2022

Biochemistry, Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Junk DNA has been getting redress for decades of ignominy. Now, retrotransposons and transposable elements may be next in line for a better reputation. Read More ›